Drygarn Fawr

#4128 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Drygarn Fawr is a mountain in the county of Powys, Wales. It is one of the highest summits in Mid Wales standing at 645 metres or 2114 feet above sea level. It lies to the south of the Elan Valley Reservoirs. Rising above the remote moorland plateau of the Cambrian Mountains, and to the west of the peaks of Radnor Forest, the summit is topped by two distinctive, large cairns. The mountain has a gentle, grassy, conical shape with a few rocks near the summit. Nearby are the summits of Gorllwyn, Y Gamriw, and Drum yr Eira all over 600m. ()

Elevation: 2116 ftProminence: 843 ftCoordinates: 52°12'45"N, 3°39'48"W

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Drygarn Fawr – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Soar y mynydd, Claerwen, Llyn Brianne, Elan aqueduct.

5.9 miSW
Church
Soar y mynydd
150 min walk • Soar-y-mynydd or Soar y mynydd is a Calvinist Methodist chapel near the eastern extremity of the large parish of Llanddewi Brefi, Ceredigion. Its often-repeated claim to fame is that it is the remotest chapel in all Wales. Its name is Welsh for ‘Zoar of the mountain’.
4.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Claerwen
107 min walk • The Claerwen reservoir and dam in Powys, Wales, were the last additions to the Elan Valley Reservoirs system built to provide water for the increasing water demand of the city of Birmingham and the West Midlands.
6.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Llyn Brianne
165 min walk • Llyn Brianne is a man-made lake or reservoir in the headwaters of the River Tywi in Wales.
4.5 miNE
Aqueduct
Elan aqueduct
115 min walk • The Elan aqueduct crosses Wales and the Midlands of England, running eastwards from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Mid Wales to Birmingham's Frankley Reservoir, carrying drinking water for Birmingham.
4.3 miN
Lake, Dam
Elan Valley Reservoirs, Rhayader
109 min walk • The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales.
4.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Elan Valley
119 min walk • The Elan Valley is a river valley situated to the west of Rhayader, in Powys, Wales, sometimes known as the "Welsh Lake District". It covers 70 square miles of lake and countryside.
~850 ftW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gorllwyn
5 min walk • Gorllwyn is a subsidiary summit of Drygarn Fawr, located on a remote moorland plateau of the Cambrian Mountains. The summit is grassy and is surrounded by peat bog. There is a shelter cairn and a trig point.